A recent study at Harvard confirms what many runners suspected -- heel strikers are more likely to get injured than forefoot strikers.
See the review here in a NY Times blog.
I'd emphasize that while the study bears out the trend, the takeaway here is "if it isn't broke, don't fix it." If you don't have a lot of injuries, go with what you got. If you're a heel striker and you tend to have more injuries than most (and you know who you ARE within NETT), it might be worth trying to gradually change that pattern.
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3 comments:
Can't you just pad your heels with Fluff?
Hmm, is the headline wrong - say's 'forefoot'?
I use heel cups to avoid Achilles tendinitis
Just checking to see if anyone's reading. Frank gets a +1 on NETTPlus
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